The CTM 2026 lineup swells with new club and concert announcements as well as our Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab. Weekend Passes and tickets to many events are now on sale. 

Newly confirmed artists and projects are:

• Assyouti b2b OKO DJ
• Benfika
• Blood of Aza
• DJ Babatr
• DJ Deep RH
• DJ Love
• feeo
• Finlay Shakespeare
• gamut inc – »Dialogue de l'orgue double«
• Hilary Woods
• Jehia
• John Glacier
• Kara-Lis Coverdale
• Kentaro Hayashi
• King Yosef
• Marylou b2b Fukinsei
• NGHTCRWLR
• Noémi Büchi – »Exuvie«
• Rozzma
• Ruiseñor 
• Sarah Davachi – »Double Reeds«
• TOCCORORO 
• Viiann
• Vv Pete
• White Prata
• Youth Code

More acts, workshops, the festival exhibition, and a collaboration with Refuge Worldwide will be announced mid-December. The Discourse programme will be announced in January.

Read the full announcement

Weekend Passes for each respective CTM Festival weekend are now on sale, as are tickets for several events. CTM Festival passes and Connect Passes for CTM + transmediale remain on sale in limited quantities.

More tickets will be released with our December announcement. 

CTM 2026 passes and tickets

Resynthesising the Traditional is an artistic lab which will host six artists selected via open call for a weeklong exploration of the intersection of heritage, technology, and political imagination. They will present their current solo work in short, public presentations on Tuesday 27 January 2026, and share insights into some of the ideas, processes and conversations explored during the week at a roundtable discussion on the festival’s closing Sunday 1 February. This lab edition will be co-hosted by sound artist Yara Mekawei and sound researcher and artist Stas Shärifullá.

A big congratulations to the selected fellows who will kick off this inaugural edition of the lab:

• Bint Mbareh
• Dorothy Carlos
• Maarja Nuut
• Marina Tantanozi
• Miłosz Kędra
• Saba Alizadeh

Read more about the fellows, their practices, and the lab on our website.

More information

Funded by
Senate Department of Culture and Social Cohesion | Goethe-Institut | German Federal Foreign Office | Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

In Cooperation with
Berghain | DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program | HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Haus der Visionäre | iii – instrument inventors initiative | Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien | Morphine Raum | Radialsystem | RSO.Berlin | transmediale 2026 | Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Institutional Partners
Checkpoint Charlie Foundation | Culture Ireland | Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands | Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism | KOFICE Korean Foundation for Intercultural Exchange | Kore A Round Culture | Quebec Government Office in Berlin

Programme Partners
∄ | Archipel Festival | Deutschlandfunk Kultur Hörspiel / Klangkunst | Forecast | Freie Universität Berlin | Kunst Universität Linz | Leuphana Universität Lüneburg | NERDS | ORF Kunstradio | ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst | ORF Ö1 | Sommerset House Studios | Sonic Acts Biennale | tekhnē | u2203 studio | Universität Oldenburg | WeSA 

Supported by
Ableton | d&b audiotechnik | d&b Soundscape | Stager

Media Partners
Deutschlandfunk Kultur | Taz – Die Tageszeitung | Refuge Worldwide | Resident Advisor